Department Administration

The Department of Physics & Astronomy is managed by a team of faculty and staff. The Department Chair is Laurie McNeil (mcneil@physics.unc.edu) and the Department Manager is Donna Braxton (dbraxton@physics.unc.edu). There are three assistant chairs: Jon Engel (engelj@physics.unc.edu) for Undergraduate Affairs and Studies, Charles Evans (evans@physics.unc.edu) for Graduate Affairs and Studies, and Art Champagne (artc@physics.unc.edu) for Personnel. Please consult other parts of this website for details of the undergraduate and graduate programs.

The faculty are organized into a variety of committees charged with overseeing everything from curriculum revisions to undergraduate and graduate affairs to computing. The current list of faculty committees and their memberships can be found here.

For issues requiring help from the Department staff, a listing of staff members can be found here.

The Department follows established policies in a number of key areas, including hiring, post-tenure review, promotion and tenure. Links describing Departmental policies are located here. Links for University policies can be found here as well.